Here at Suits by Suits, we are thankful that the news about executive-employer disputes keeps flowing like gravy. This past month, we focused a lot of attention on non-compete agreements, many of which met the same fate as an unpardoned turkey. On a day as cold as chilled cranberry sauce, we sent a live correspondent to cover the oral argument in Lawson v. FMR LLC, in which the Supreme Court will decide whether employees of privately-held contractors of public companies have viable Sarbanes-Oxley claims. Finally, as per our holiday tradition, we recapped the history of Thanksgiving, in a post as entertaining as the most memorable Cowboys loss.

For us here in the greater Baltimore/Washington metropolitan area, March was true to form – or at least, the Farmer’s Almanac – and came in like a lion (with city-closing snow and everything!) but has gone out like a lamb, as today is beautifully sunny with highs in the mid-60s.

Now that Suits by Suits is on Twitter, you and your friends can follow us here to get up-to-the-minute Suits by Suits updates. If you missed us last month, ‎check out Suits by Suits’ posts, inspired by current events, on legal issues ‎affecting companies and high-level employees:

So much for starting the year off slowly! In the areas we track – primarily disputes and issues between companies and their executives, but also anything that can impact those employment relationships – a lot happened in the first month of 2013. We wrote about it – because while most of the country was in a deep freeze, here at SuitsbySuits headquarters in Washington, we enjoyed an unusually warm January and so were able to keep our fingers warm enough to type (no comment on our Tampa colleagues who bask in comparative warmth year round).

The boundaries and mechanics of litigation and arbitration between executives gave rise to some thoughtful commentary on recent cases from our colleagues John Connolly and Adam Fotiades, which we’ve captured below in case you missed them. We also looked at covenants not to compete, discovery gone awry, perpetual battles over social media and religion in the workplace, and – remember back to the holidays? – potential claims Bob Cratchit might have had against Ebenezer Scrooge under federal law:

Of course – however it may have seemed if you lived in a swing state like Virginia, Ohio, Florida, or Colorado – there was more to October of 2012 than the impending election, and we were on top of those issues as well. In particular, we discussed the strange case of former Goldman Sachs VP Sergey Aleynikov, who was charged twice with stealing Goldman Sachs' intellectual property (in this case, proprietary computer code) but who nevertheless sought indemnification and advancement of his ongoing defense costs from Goldman Sachs. (We also discussed the D&O insurance implications of Aleynikov's lawsuit.)